tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post7452932398261225540..comments2015-03-31T08:42:38.610-07:00Comments on TOM CLARK: John Ruskin: On Carpaccio's Dream of St UrsulaZephirinenoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-61130779086019267032013-01-25T09:06:32.240-08:002013-01-25T09:06:32.240-08:00Hi Tom - just back from Venice - and the unspeakab...Hi Tom - just back from Venice - and the unspeakable privilege and pleasure of eyeing up-close these masterpieces<br />love always <br />to you &amp; A<br />as ever<br />Simon<br /><br />http://serendipity250.blogspot.com/Simonp@pipeline.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15343400718639839173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-62240325568159166442013-01-24T21:05:32.088-08:002013-01-24T21:05:32.088-08:00That Ruskin to Williams line is a beautiful tracer...That Ruskin to Williams line is a beautiful tracery of human care. I had thought the thread had been lost in the weeds until it turned up again, glimmering there in the dark, under a seat on the wooden bus.<br /><br />This has not been an easy winter here, but a week of nights spent with Carpaccio and Ruskin came as sweet relief. It seems the best things open up to us most clearly when we most need them, perhaps perhaps.TChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-5147577795260065672013-01-24T14:44:49.104-08:002013-01-24T14:44:49.104-08:00Ursula&#39;s &quot;...cheek resting on her hand......Ursula&#39;s &quot;...cheek resting on her hand...&quot; is a very tender thing. The room&#39;s a perfect space for dreaming in.<br /><br />&quot;To do good work whether you live or die, &quot; it is the entrance to all princedoms. <br /><br />This is a clear statement against alienated labour. That this delicate man could play such a part in the labour movement in Britain gives me hope. <br /><br />There&#39;s an unbroken line from John Ruskin to Raymond Williams. A history worth holding to.Wooden Boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-29739329610801601602013-01-24T14:24:55.879-08:002013-01-24T14:24:55.879-08:00nice...interesting last wordsnice...interesting last wordsSandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670821270960081899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-90833399682007229502013-01-24T06:47:42.535-08:002013-01-24T06:47:42.535-08:00Little is known of the life of the Venetian painte...Little is known of the life of the Venetian painter Vittore Carpaccio. The most ambitious of his works are two great cycles of paintings, the Scenes from the Life of St Ursula (of which the most original is the top picture here, The Dream of St Ursula), and a subsequent cycle, Scenes from the Lives of St George and St Jerome (which includes the painting of St Augustin in his study, seen here). After these two major commissioned series, Carpaccio&#39;s fortunes went into decline, the anecdotal and &quot;orientalizing&quot; aspects of his work coming to be regarded as out-of-date. Today however his work is acknowledged, along with that of Gentile Bellini (who was probably a strong influence) as the two great Venetian masters. The beginning of this restoration of Carpaccio&#39;s critical reputation came with the enthusiastic assessment of the influential English critic John Ruskin (1819-1900).<br /><br />The Ruskin essay on Carpaccio&#39;s masterpiece is one of a series of pamphlets addressed to &quot;the workmen and labourers of Great Britain&quot;, composed between 1871 and 1884, and dedicated to affecting social and moral change -- a part of Ruskin&#39;s larger engagement with the betterment of the lives and conditions of the working classes.<br /><br />The full set of 96 pamphlets in the Fors Clavigera series, originally published singly, were issued in an eight volume &quot;popular edition&quot; in 1886.<br /><br />That edition, broken into four parts, can be found online <a href="http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007911181" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br /><br />To a correspondent who had enquired about the pamphlet on the Carpaccio painting, Ruskin wrote:<br /><br />&quot;High up, in an out-of-the-way corner of the Academy in Venice, seen by no man -- nor woman neither -- of all the pictures in Europe the one I should choose for a gift, if a fairy gave me choice -- Victor Carpaccio&#39;s &#39;Vision of St. Ursula&#39;&quot;...TChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com